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02-05-2008, 09:01 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Mary Fisher
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Living herbs bought from supermarket
"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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| My wife has bought some parsley , one curly leaf and one flat leaf,
| growing in a pot and enclosed (held up!) with plastic wrapping. Once
| the wrapping is removed both herbs were very floppy and do look rather
| pale. The curly leaf parsley has seemed to have died now. Is there
| anything that we can do to save the other. These plants look quite
| good in the supermarket but after only a couple of days at home they
| fade fast, particularly if the wrapper is taken off and they have no
| support.
No. Save your money and grow them yourself; they are grown under
conditions that you don't want to replicate, and the shock of being
moved to a supermarket and then a house is too much for them. The
main exception, in my experience, is basil - you can sometimes keep
that going for some time.
I grow several herbs, mostly from seed. Parsley seems to be slow growing
though so although I have several pots around I sometimes need more (I love
parsley and use it almost daily).
The large pots of parsley I buy from Waitrose are excellent value and they
last for weeks - unless I water them too much.
Mary
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